Safe sex, safe music, safe clothing, safe hair spray, safe ozone layer. Too late! Everything that's been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe. — Lemmy Kilmister
The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field — Wendy Mass
Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don't let them drag you into the mud. — Richard Branson
If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned. — Bam Bam Bigelow
Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands. — Jeff Cooper
Prevention is better than cure. — Desiderius Erasmus
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. — Dag Hammarskjold
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself. — Seneca The Elder
He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard. — Publilius Syrus
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. — Sophocles
Look twice before you leap. — Charlotte Bronte
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. — Kin Hubbard
You will go most safely in the middle. — Ovid
Play Safe Image Quotes
A ship in harbour is safe but thats not what ships are for.
Don't Play Safe Quotes
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.' — Rosario Dawson
If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore. — Shirley Hufstedler
If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. — Woody Allen
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world. — Zainab Salbi
The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk. — Benjamin Hoff
Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up. — Steven Moffat
The things that seem insignificant to most people such as note, song, or walk become invaluable trasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.
Don't play safe. Cook outside of your comfort zone, otherwise you're just going to do the same things. — Tom Aikens
The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch. — Jean Giraudoux
So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God's perfect plan for your life. — Joyce Meyer
Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down. — Jack McDevitt
Safe Game Quotes
It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is to drag the human race along with me, that I will never pander to, or speak down to, or play the safe game. — Harlan Ellison
If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game. — Catherine Deneuve
I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe. — Bobby Jones
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Overall I can fairly safely say Bobby Orr impressed me more than anybody with his tremendous talents. In Bobby's first N.H.L. game he layed the lumber to Gordie's head. Later Howe retalliated and wanted to let the kid know he wasn't washed up yet. — Gordie Howe
The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat. — John Muir
Certainly, if you can't manage your game, you can't play tournament golf. You continually have to ask yourself what club to play, where to aim it, whether to accept a safe par or to try to go for a birdie. You can't play every hole the same way. I never could. — Ben Hogan
Carry out a randon act of kindness, with no expectations of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game. — Walter Munk
The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely castled, and only then begin more aggressive maneuvers. — Jeremy Silman
My job is to protect the integrity of the NFL and to make sure the game is as safe as possible. — Roger Goodell
Play Is Important Quotes
The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our masks. Creativity, especially where acting is concerned, Is boundless sincerity, yet disciplined. — Jerzy Grotowski
Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air. — William Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde said that some things are too important to be taken seriously. Art is one of those things. Setting the bar low, especially to get started, frees you to play, explore, and test without attachment to results. — Rick Rubin
Never change your originality for the sake of others. Because no one can play your role better than you.
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive — Chuck Berry
The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don't go to school. It's also one of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates. — Shakira
You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play. — Herb Brooks
Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better.
It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king. — Siegbert Tarrasch
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing. — Ellyse Perry
Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another. — Thomas Merton
The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night. — Steve Nash
Playing It Safe Quotes
Why have you not broken from the pack? You're playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you sh!t in this world — Stone Cold Steve Austin
Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty — Jordan Belfort
Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them. — Mandy Hale
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw of the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in you sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all. — Sophia Loren
You can be good playing it safe. You can’t be relentless unless you’re willing to take chances. Safe makes you good, chances make you great. — Tim Grover
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. — Sophia Loren
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand ~Randy Pausch
Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority. — Shakti Gawain
Nothing remains intact without effort. Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to the passivity of memory. Intelligence must play a part in its conservation, rediscovering it, so to speak, in the process. — Henri de Lubac
I would say my best decision I ever made was to pursue my dream and give it my all. Thankfully, I have not yet made really bad decisions, I'm the kind of person to play it on the safe side. — Zendaya
Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do. — Reid Hoffman
Be Safe Quotes
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass
Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise. — Zoroaster
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes difference.
I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. — Shana Abe
If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar! — Steve Harvey
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe. — Jane Jacobs
I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! — Hunter S. Thompson
The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life! — John Calvin
When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The narrow conception of happiness that most of us have by default is something we’re tying to defend against all of the other things in life that are threatening to undermine it. The one obvious point is that it’s not a safe play. It’s perpetually under threat. Any joy you can feel, by virtue of it having arisen, based on some causes and conditions, is going to pass away. — Peter Attia
There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before. — Dave Brubeck
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures. — Dorothy Day
And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within... — Jimmy Buffett
I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second. — Phil Mickelson
Nobody got anything great by playing it safe. — Shonda Rhimes
Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me. — Edward G. Robinson
Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play. — Thomas Szasz
If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe. — John C. Maxwell
We're not just a band playing songs, we're a safe place to go forget your troubles. — Jaime Preciado
I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok? — John Burdett
Many people believe that dealing with overweight and obesity is a personal responsibility. To some degree they are right, but it is also a community responsibility. When there are no safe, accessible places for children to play or adults to walk, jog, or ride a bike, that is a community responsibility. — David Satcher
I'm trying to manufacture a sleepover feel; like a tree house or a clubhouse. I want people to be silly and play and feel safe and some people, you have to coax them into that space and some people bring me further into that space, even past the point that I wanted to go. — Pete Holmes
Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place for baby to spend time playing alone. — Magda Gerber
It's better to go out like a man, trying, than to play it safe and get second. — Sean Malto
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe. — Alfie Kohn
The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything. — Mike Nichols
As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all. — Mark Batterson
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given. — Barbara Sher
I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe. — Christian Bale
For instance, let us say that a new stock has been listed in the last two or three years and its high was 20, or any other figure, and that such a price was made two or three years ago. If something favorable happens in connection with the company, and the stock starts upward, usually it is safe play to buy the minute it touches a brand new high. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me. — Mary Chapin Carpenter
Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way. — Francis Chan
If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man. — Robert Kiyosaki
We're just one cog in this giant machine. You show up and look at all the other cogs like, "Wow, everyone is the best at what they do." You're in really good hands. And that frees you up to play and feel safe, and you can take chances, creatively. You can take risks. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe. — James Badge Dale
The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe. You must admit though, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk. — Bob Proctor
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